Snow Grandfather Poems

Children's Poems VII

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Sailing to My Grandfather, for...

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I
dream
about,
grandpa's farm,
his house in winter,
white snow blending with sky and clouds,
the horses safe and cozy in the barn I just left,
oh, if I could...

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It’s snowing! It’s snowing! It’s SNOWING!
Fire inside the house was toasty and glowing.
But the inhabitants were excited sister kittens. 
All three were too excited to...

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saguaros 
guardians of the sonora
a battalion wafting 
in one hundred degree heat 
standing sentry on granite slopes
vertical green etches
in carmel cliffs
literally--litter the foothills

rising up the...

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The snow was sticking in the open space
Clouds hung heavy over Grand-pa’s place
The sands of time rings out the cheer
Stamping out opulence with love and...

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It was there on the cliffs of my home I found them. The wolves that fight for the moon. You see, there have been tales...

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Old Grandpa Jones slipped and fell on the ice
Poor fellow paid a mighty heavy price
  He broke twenty-nine bones
  All day long, moans...

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Poems about Children II



On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch

for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon

Maya was made in the image...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV



Neglect
by Michael R. Burch

What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III




Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there is no time for a...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II



All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch

for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

Grandfather,
now in your gray...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I

I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his...

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Poems about Children


The Desk
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and...

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Family Poems

Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch

There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you...

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He shrugged and said,”If you’ve no home
I guess you could stay for a while.
But you will have to learn the traps,
and that means many cold...

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